Subject: Re: [Users] Using virsh on the node Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:25:55 +0200 From: Itamar Heim <iheim@redhat.com> To: Dan Yasny <dyasny@redhat.com> CC: users@ovirt.org
On 02/27/2012 06:34 PM, Dan Yasny wrote:
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From: "Nathan Stratton"<nathan@robotics.net> To: "Dan Yasny"<dyasny@redhat.com> Cc: users@ovirt.org, "Andrew Cathrow"<acathrow@redhat.com> Sent: Monday, 27 February, 2012 4:13:54 PM Subject: Re: [Users] Using virsh on the node
On Mon, 27 Feb 2012, Dan Yasny wrote:
So the engine is a VM in that same cluster, along with the VMs it manages?
Yes, the only thing I have not been able to figure out is how to let the ovirt-engine know that ovirt-engine is running. :) I thought that it would see via libvirt, but it does not. I also tried setting it in the db, but it keeps getting cleared. Any idea on how to let ovirt-engine know that a host has been started manually?
Seriously, not a good idea. The Engine is supposed to be looking at the setup, and not be in the setup, where it may be affected by the problems that might occur to the setup. I'm pretty sure there's lots of though being devoted to removing this limitation, but when we say it's a bad idea, it really is, it's not like we simply want you to run an extra machine
Doron - this reminds me of the all-in-one discussion. what was the resolution on flagging the node as a node running an engine VM (even without engine knowing about its own VM)
Sorry for breaking the thread, technical issues. Currently we handle standard platforms (ie- not the node), by using the all-in-one rpm which is currently in work. So when you add a host via the REST you may specify not to reboot it, and you should not specify power-management from properties, which will make sure fencing will not occur. Other than that there's no specific awareness to the host being an angine-core host.
What do you use for storage?
That's easier than block storage, but still, what happens if the host where the engine was running failed - who would update VM statuses and restart the HA VMs?
NFS:
mount 10.13.0.4:/images/ /rhev/data-center/mnt/10.13.0.4:_images mount 10.13.0.4:/iso/ /rhev/data-center/mnt/10.13.0.4:_iso
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